GEORGETOWN, Ky. (LEX 18) — The pandemic has shone a light on the growing mental health crisis and at the receiving end are law enforcement officers answering calls for help. For every call they answer ...

Wheeling Police Chief Shawn Schwertfeger, center, and Lata Menon, CEO of First Choice Services, left, talked to a group of local mental health officials, local law enforcement and others at the Wood ...

Immediate help is available to students, faculty, staff, parents and family members when a crisis occurs or threats of harm arise. CWRU's Reach Out mobile app provides quick access to support and ...

I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Lisa Kelso, a licensed therapist who put together and leads the city of Henderson’s Mobile Crisis Intervention Team. The MCIT was formed to address some ...

For its work diverting citizens in crisis away from the criminal justice system, the Anne Arundel County Crisis Intervention Team was awarded the highest-possible certification for a program of its ...

The Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) is a county-wide effort that involves hospitals, counselors, courts and law enforcement officers from various local agencies. All officers are provided training to ...

Health officials in the Bay Area and across the state are demanding that Gov. Gavin Newsom restore proposed budget cuts of ...

Studies over the past two decades have shown a person with serious mental illness can be over 10 times more likely to experience use of force during police interactions. Crisis Intervention Response ...

When Palos Heights police responded recently to a report of a suspicious person, they found a victim of sex trafficking who was short circuiting over the abuse she had experienced. Before Officer ...

APPLETON – Twenty years ago, Appleton became the first police department in Wisconsin to implement a new approach to policing incidents involving mental illness. It was 2003. John Wallschlaeger, then ...

An Anne Arundel County work group is reviewing the police department’s restraint policies after the reassignment of the leader of the department’s renowned Crisis Intervention Team fueled debate about ...